Instrumentation development is essential to ensure our facilities remain cutting edge. Here we describe key ongoing instrumentation projects.

Ultra-wideband Receivers

Ultra-Wideband Low Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, is being upgraded with a suite of ultra-wide bandwidth receivers. The ultra-wide bandwidth low-frequency receiver (UWL), which was installed on the telescope with […]

BIGCAT

BIGCAT is the Broadband Integrated GPU Correlator for ATCA, a project funded in part by an Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant. The LIEF funding is being led by Western Sydney […]

Our cryogenically cooled phased array feed, CryoPAF, being assembled by our engineers.

CryoPAF

The cryogenically cooled phased array feed is the next generation, wide-field-of-view survey instrument for the Murriyang telescope.

An expanse of red soil and small shrubs seen from up high with a distant horizon All the ground are about ten shiny silver circles of radio antennas

LAMBDA

SKA-Low will be a transformational low-frequency radio telescope, providing unprecedented capability to detect and study the EoR, catalog radio emission from galaxies at all cosmic epochs, and answer questions that […]

Upgraded ASKAP PAF

The Upgraded ASKAP Phased Array Feed (PAF) project commenced in October 2024 with the goal of developing and prototyping a new generation PAF which will significantly improve the ASKAP array […]

Radio telescope dishes pointing out towards the sky from red earth.

CRACO

CRACO is the latest hardware upgrade to our ASKAP radio telescope, delivering a ~tenfold increase in its ability to detect fast transient sources.